[Coco] [coco] BLOB or something else?

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Mar 16 01:18:53 EDT 2008


On Sunday 16 March 2008, George Ramsower wrote:
> I've been threatening to create a new boot for my CNC coco to utilize the
>Disto SCII disk controller, so finally I got a round tuit tonight.
>
> Now, I have not been able to get it to work.
>
> I expect the Boot List Order Bug, but can't confirm it.
>
> I'm using os9gen and a boot list as follows:
>
>os9p2
>init
>ioman
>rbf.mn
>clock.60hz <---- how old is this clock?
>../disto/level2/cc3disk.irq
>ddd0_80d.dd
>d0_80d.dd
>scf.mn
>cc3io.dr
>vdgint.io
>grfint.io
>term_vdg.dt
>w.dw
>w1.dw
>w2.dw
>w3.dw
>w4.dw
>aciapak.dr
>t2.dd
>pipeman.mn
>piper.dr
>pipe.dd
>cc3go
>
>The only difference in this one and the original(which does work) is the
>"../disto/leve2/cc3disk.irq" line.
>
>The Disto driver is a little bit smaller than the original MW driver. Could
>this lead to a BLOB?

If the clock modules you are using are previous to the edition 9 (I think) 
that Eddie Kuhns patched up, then the BLOB is a possibility on coco3's only.

All this stuff has been fixed in the latest nitros9 releases, and as I 
understand it, it does now run on 6809's too.

> Any suggestions?
>
>George
>
>
>--
>Coco mailing list
>Coco at maltedmedia.com
>http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/coco



-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Therefore it is necessary to learn how not to be good, and to use
this knowledge and not use it, according to the necessity of the cause.
		-- Machiavelli



More information about the Coco mailing list